Apparatus for affixing postage-stamps.



PATENTED DEG. 8,1903. I

0. WELTER & T. GRENZSTEIN. APPARATUS FOR AFFIXING POSTAGE SYTAMIIS.APPLICATION- IILED DBO. 31, 1902.

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v awemzzkw No. 746 423,. PATENTED DEC. 8, 1903.

' G. WELTER &: T. GRENZSTEIN.

APPARATUS FOR .AFFIXING POSTAGE STAMPS.

APPLICATION FILED DBO 31, 1902.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 21 I0 MODEL.

UNITED STAT S Patented December 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

APPARATUS FOR AFFIXING POSTAGE-STAMPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 746,423, datedDecember 8, 1903. Application filed December 31, 1902- Serial No.137,370. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that we, CARL WELTER and THEODOR GRENZSTEIN, both citizensof the German Empire, residing at DusseldorflGermany, have invented anImproved Apparatus for Affixing Postage-Stamps, of which the fol--lowing is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents the apparatus as seenfrom the front and is in part shown in section. Fig. 2 is a plan view,and Fig. 3 is an end elevation or side view. Fig. 4 shows the mechanismwhich works the feed-carriage. Fig. 5 is a section on line C D, Fig. 3;Fig. 6, a section on line E F, Fig. 4; and Fig. 7, a section online G H,Fig. 4.

The sheets of stamps, perforated in the usual manner, are rolled up andplaced into a casing 1, which is supplied with a trap-lid and an openingat the bottom, through which the stamp-sheets are drawn by means of therollers 3 insuch a manner that after moving the casing containing thestamp-sheets the first row of stamps comes into such a position thatthey are each and individually acted upon when the stamper 2, which isinfluenced by a spring 4, is pressed down. The moistening of the stampson the stamper 2 being. pressed down, as well'as the moving of thecarriage 5, bearing the casing 1, which contains the sheets of stamps,is efiected by pressing down the handle 8, with its rod 7. When the rod7 is depressed by the handle, and so in the opposite direction of thespring 19, the stamp is moistened by the roller .10, which is saturatedwith water and is hung in a holder 22, teleseoped bya tubular rod orIever 9. The roller passes under the stamp to be affixed and inoistensit-or the place on the envelop. The saturating of the roller is efieotedby a suitable continuance; but it may also be done automatically bybringing the roller into contact with a supply apparatus after it leavesthe stamp.

In order thatin spite of the rotary motion of the lever 9 the roller 10may touch and moisten equally every part of the stamp, the

holder or bearing 22 of the roller-axle is made to slide in the hollowlever 9 and is held by a spring. The lever 9, which carries the roller10, is supplied with a pin or roller 6, which through an oblique slot inthe wall of the casing engages into a slot 14 of the rod or piston 7. Atits top the slot is perpendicular, but has a downward inclination at itsbottom, so that when the rod or piston is depressed the lever 9, withthe roller 10, turns first in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 3, tillthe lever arrives in the position shown by the dotted line, in whichposition it remains while the pin 6 is in the perpendicular portion ofthe slot when the rod is depressed.

'As soon as the roller 10 arrives in the position shown by the dottedline the rod 7 strikes upon the stam per 2, carrying it downward, sothat the stamp which is under it and whose edge 16 is held all round ina frame-like guide at or near the casing 18 is separated, pressed ontothe envelop, and thus affixed. The return movement of the roller 10takes place after the stamper 2 is raised. After this is done the lever20, which is pivoted at 12 and is supplied with a catch 11 and whichengages with the pin 13 into the slot 15 of the rod 7, is pulled in thedirection of the arrow. I-Iereupon the catch 11, which engages into theteeth or cogs 17 on the carriage 5, is pushed forward. The length of theteeth corresponds with the breadth of the stamps. It will here be seenthat on moving the lever 20 the carriage 5, with the casing 1,containing the stamps, is moved laterally the breadth ofa single stamp,so that the next stamp is brought into position under the stamper. Onthe next depression of the rod after the inoisteniug of the stamp hasbeen effected the lever 20 first returns, so that the catch 11 dropsbehind the next cog.

When the first row of stamps has been used up, thenext row can be pushedforward by simply turning therollers 3, one of which is supplied with aknob.

The apparatus may also be used for sticking labels, 850., in which casethe apparatus 1 and a roller hungin the holder, substantially Io couldbe made larger. as specified.

What We claim is Signed by us at Dusseldorf, Germany, this In anapparatus for affixing stamps, the 3d day of December, 1902. 5combination of a spring-influenced stamper CARL WELTER.

with a spring-influenced slotted plunger THEODOR GRENZSTEIN.

adapted to engage the same, a tubular lever I Witnesses: having a pinthat engages the slotted plun- PETER LIEBER, ger, a holder arranged toslide in the lever, WILLIAM ESSENWEIN.

